Friday, February 03, 2012

A Conservative Alternative to the Drudge Report?

BadBlue News ServiceSenator Fred Thompson says that "Romney has Drudge (top news source) in back pocket."

While that may or may not be true, there appears to be an alternative news aggregator that seems to be taking off. BadBlue.com monitors the social networks to determine which news stories are getting the most "buzz". It runs 24/7/365 monitoring hundreds of news sites and (most importantly!) blogs.

Here's how it looked when this post was created:

Unlike the Drudge Report, you can find the top stories that are trending now, over the last 24 hours, the last week, or even the last month.

You can even track the popularity of each story over time. Here's an example:

Need a list of stories from each news source? Here are the top stories from Ace of Spades:

Check it out and, if you like it, bookmark BadBlue and follow its updates on Twitter at @BadBlueNews.

Now conservatives have a choice.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

A great idea with a wretched interface. Hire a designer and they'll be golden!!

sTevo said...

I stopped reading drudge. too many show me your tits stories where the dont really show their... well you know.

Reliapundit said...

LOVE BADBLUUE.

BUT FEEL IT IS UNWISE TO SLANDER DRUDGE TO MAKE BB AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCE.

:)

Anonymous said...

All links to Drudge have been removed from our 3 home computers! In addition I build and configure computers for a living and as of Feb. 1, 2012 no links to drudge are included in the basic browser favorites I include.

Joe said...

An other alternative to the Drudge report is LatestNewsHeadline.com